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Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 12:12 am
by dales
Pink Floyd’s Drummer Crashed His McLaren F1 GTR
This one will make your heart hurt. While out at Goodwood Circuit for the 75th Members’ Meeting on Sunday, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason slammed into an outside wall with his McLaren F1 GTR on a parade lap. Mason got out of the car and was walking around afterward.
Mason took the car on track for the GT1 demonstration on Sunday, in which officials waved participating cars onto the track with spacing in between each other. The commentators were discussing a Ferrari F40 when the camera view switched onto Mason, and one characteristically yelled “Oh my golly!” at the sight of the car spinning away from a wall.
Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:05 am
by RayThom
He's too old for this type of shit.
Re: Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:32 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Never too old.
Only now at age 84 (to be 85 in August) is my dad giving up riding his Harley.
I will soon be the owner of said Harley.
2001 Heritage. 74,000 miles on it. Dad bought it brand new in 2001. Put all the miles on himself (outside of about 100 miles I put on it). Sturgis, Laconia, Daytona, he's been to all of them multiple times.
When I grow up I wanna be just like him.
Sad to see him stop riding, but he's got parkinsons and is having trouble holding the bike up.
I tried to talk him into a trike, but he doesn't want one.
Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 4:47 pm
by RayThom
oldr_n_wsr wrote:Never too old.
Only now at age 84 (to be 85 in August) is my dad giving up riding his Harley...
I wasn't talking about driving a vehicle safely, but in the context of amateur auto racing -- and especially the hitting-of-the-wall part.
I give a pass to Mario Andretti (b.1940). He approaches racing much more professionally but even he is becoming "less invincible."
Re: Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:32 pm
by Burning Petard
Spinning out on a parade lap indicates severe deficiencies--the mechanicals of the car, the skill of the driver, or both.
snailgate
Re: Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:07 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I give a pass to Mario Andretti (b.1940). He approaches racing much more professionally but even he is becoming "less invincible."
I've snowmobiled with Mario Andretti, not this year, but most other years. Snow in that area has been a little light the past couple of years.
He has a house up in the Beach Lake area. He is a very "in control" rider, unlike some of the crew he rides with.
Few years back his wife got hit by another snowmobiler and was hurt pretty bad. Don't remember if she was on her own machine or the person hit Marios machine that she was riding on the back of. Almost stopped everyones riding in the area, but all was settled "quietly" as he wanted to be able to continue to ride.
IIRC the other rider was drunk
Re: Pink Floyd The Wall
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:30 pm
by Jarlaxle
The dude that runs the Hemi Under Glass wheelstander was, IIRC, 83.